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Radio adaptation of Julius Caesar. Host Tom Tully urges viewers to pray together before introducing the story. The heavily abridged 30 minute version ends with Tully giving a family-orientated homily.
Advertisement for T-Mobile’s Unlimited Family Plan. Juliet is on the balcony with her mobile ‘phone. She asks "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" "Call or text". On the ‘phone screen comes the message "CU soon...
Celia Imrie, Kenneth Cranham and Fiona Shaw consider and discuss the themes of discord and misunderstanding in family life found in King Lear, and the reasons which may account for the continued popularity...
Examines King Lear from a modern feminist viewpoint, opening up discussions about gender roles in Shakespeare’s text. The video juxtaposes the text as performed, against specially written scenes to...
Television sitcom. Ozzie decides to read Hamlet aloud to the family because David is studying the play at school. Before the reading begins a mysterious stranger, Whitfield, appears. With his help, the...
Feature film. A loose reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story. Set in a small coal mining village in Wales in 1911, a young Jewish peddler (Solomon) meets Gaenor, the eldest daughter of a Christian mining...
DVD of season 1 of the US TV sitcom derived from the 1999 feature film 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU which in turn is a re-working of The Taming of the Shrew. The single-camera sitcom employs the leading...
Feature film with a plot inspired by King Lear. A self-respecting wise old man decides to divide his property among his family. He settles down with his youngest son and soon realises that without his wealth...
US television sitcom about the Huxtable family, an African-American family living in New York City. Dr Heathcliff (`Cliff’) Huxtable (Cosby) is a obstetrician, and his wife Clair (Rashid), is an attorney;...
Filmstrip converted to video. Cartoon illustrations depicting Shakespeare’s family life, career, and where his inspiration originated.
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